In a new teaser video released by HBO, several major events and the fictional world's timeline is revealed.
The timeline indicates that a "divergence" happened in Hong Kong in June 2019, marked by political unrest and then followed by the impeachment of the President of the United States.
We're nearing the middle of January, and chances are your new year's resolution is already feeling like a bit of a battle. Resolutions are a helpful tool for testing ourselves and improving our willpower, but if you're having a really hard time sticking to your new vow, you might be better off giving up.
Psychologist Niels Eék, the cofounder of mental health and wellbeing app Remente, told Insider resolutions can offer us direction if we're suffering from end of year anxiety about what we actually achieved in the previous 12 months, and making clear future goals can really help us focus.
For a radio tower and surrounding buildings operated by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) near the Texas-Mexico border, vultures are no joke. Around 300 of the carnivorous birds have roosted in its radio tower, and are creating communications issues thanks to their corrosive vomit and feces.
Quartz reports that CBP filed a request for information that includes details about the problems the vultures have created at the radio tower, which is now entirely coated in "droppings mixed with urine" that have also fallen on the ground and surrounding buildings below, where people work and equipment is kept.
It's hard to pinpoint the moment the algorithm picked you. Maybe it was after a casual viewing of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," when you decided to search how many post-credit scenes you had to sit through. A YouTube video says there are five.
Who is Howard the Duck? You don't know, but he makes a cameo, so you watch another video explaining his significance. This will be the last Marvel movie for two months, but each video helps extend the dopamine rush that comes with watching Iron Man and the guy from "Parks and Recreation" work out their issues through CGI explosions. Instead of mukbangs and ASMR, you start getting videos titled "The Ending Of Spider-Man: Homecoming Explained" and "BLACK WIDOW Trailer Breakdown" in your recommended section.
Making Alita, the humanoid main character in "Alita: Battle Angel," work next to live-action characters onscreen was the biggest challenge for the visual effects team to bring to life in the film.
You may not have realized it, but a lot of work went into making the character's big, bright brown eyes look just right, especially after the film's first trailer.
Video footage captures the moment a rare occurrence called "volcanic lighting" occurred in the Philippines.
As can be seen in the video below, volcanic smoke and ash are erupting from the volcano as lightning strikes the sky.
The smoke appears to make the lightning more visible and pronounced to onlookers, who are heard screaming in the background at the terrifying scene.
In addition to playing a Resistance lieutenant, Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd had a special second role in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."
Lourd stepped in to play Princess Leia during the short flashback scene in "Episode IX."
"Billie was playing her mother," Industrial Lights & Magic visual effects supervisor Patrick Tubach told Yahoo Entertainment. "It was a poignant thing, and something that nobody took lightly — that she was willing to stand in for her mom."
If you were taken aback by Tony Stark's face during his final moments in "Avengers: Endgame," it could have looked a lot more grisly.
"We gave the filmmakers a full range [of looks] to choose from and one of those was where the energy from the stones had acted right up into his face and popped one of his eyeballs out and it was hanging out on his cheek," Weta digital VFX supervisor Matt Aitken told Insider of one of the most gruesome designs they did for Iron Man's death.
"They didn't go for that one," Aitken chuckled.
One of the biggest reveals in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," other than Rey's identity, came at its very end when the character revealed she had her own new lightsaber with a distinctive yellow-orange hue.
What color exactly is the lightsaber and how did the visual effects team land on it?
"A fair number of colors have been used in lightsabers. So there was a design challenge there in terms of what color it should be," "TROS" visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett told Insider Monday of the direction given for the lightsaber seen at the movie's very end.
